Srinagar: Calling for ceasefire in the holy month of Ramadhan, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti Saturday said that the government of India has made hell out of the lives and dignity of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Mehbooba said Prime Minister Narendra Modi keeps on telling that he […]
Pulwama: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Saturday asserted that all the major gains in decreasing the foot print of “security forces, mellowing down of PSA (Public Safety Act) and efforts to do away with Armed forces special powers act (AFSPA) were put into an abyss by the former PDP-BJP led […]
Srinagar: Sri Lanka’s army chief has said that some of the people who carried out the April 21 suicide bombings in the island country had travelled to Kashmir and Kerala in India to possibly be part of “terrorism” training activities. The comments by Lieutenant General Mahesh Senanayke is the first confirmation by a senior security […]
Srinagar: More than 20 people have suffered injuries during clashes with government forces near the gunfight site in south Kashmir’s Shopian village. Sources at District Hospital Shopian said that sixteen persons were brought to the health facility in injured conditions. “Among them three were referred to SMHS hospital in Srinagar,” he said. “All the injured had received […]
Awantipora: It all started on that cold evening in October of 2010. That’s when Burhan Wani left his home at Shareefabad in South Kashmir, only to return draped in garlands after six years, and with an enormously proud but equally sad and wailing crowd following his coffin. The crowd was in a tizzy, not […]
Srinagar: The last surviving militant of “Burhan group” has been killed among two militants in a Friday morning gunfight with government forces in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. Lateef Ahmad Dar alias Tiger, son of Ghulam Ahmad Dar, a resident of Dogripora village was part of the popular Burhan Wani group and was a category A++ militant […]
Srinagar: Amid tight security, the twin districts of Pulwama and Shopian in south Kashmir is going to polls in the three-phase schedule for Anantnag Parliamentary constituency on May 06. Over 5.22 lakh electors are going to exercise their franchise in the twin districts spread over six assembly segments comprising Tral, Pampore, Pulwama, Rajpora, Wachi and […]
Srinagar: A Kashmiri Pandit, who had migrated to outside the valley in 1990 after surviving an attack at his shop in downtown Srinagar, has once again reopened his business establishment in the area after about 29 years. Meanwhile, to his surprise, hundreds of locals, including his old friends, visited the shop of Roshan Lal Mawa […]
Srinagar: Suhail Naqshbandi has resigned from Greater Kashmir newspaper as an editorial cartoonist after he faced severe censorship of ‘one kind or the other’. “I have called it a day with Greater Kashmir as their editorial cartoonist. For a long time now, I was facing censorship of one kind or the other, the levels of […]
Srinagar: Aasif Sultan, a Kashmiri journalist arrested on “anti-state charges” in August 2018, a freelance reporter missing in Tanzania, a newspaper editor facing censorship in South Sudan and two journalists detained in Nicaragua are all among those on this month’s list of the 10 Most Urgent threats to press freedom. The list — released monthly […]
